Gerasim Levin

Gerasim Levin (1774-1849) was a colonel in the Imperial Russian Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Levin commanded a musketeer regiment in Levin August von Bennigsen's army, and he fought at the Battle of Guttstadt-Deppen in 1807, among other battles. After the end of the wars, Levin retired to his estate, and he supported the conservative Slavophiles.